henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (08/16/87)
> printf predates stdio... (previously, we didn't need sprintf and fprintf; > printf did it all!)... Au contraire, we needed sprintf and fprintf badly, we just didn't *have* them! The equivalent of fprintf got invented independently in many places, and the main reason this wasn't true for sprintf was that it was harder. -- Support sustained spaceflight: fight | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology the soi-disant "Planetary Society"! | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry